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"It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people."

"We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill."

"Also, we're all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band."

"In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah."

"I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction."

"I would consider him definitely one of my very best friends and I know he feels the same about me. We have a lot of love and respect."

"Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet."

"We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me."

"We'll have these people hang out with us while we're doing our touring, and talk to them and let them speak their piece to the world."

"You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me."
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"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."

"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."

"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."

"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."

"My poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of acage."

"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."

"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."

"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."
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